A person from Ghana riding a bicycle

Bicycles can change lives, especially in rural Africa – new report looks at their use in Ghana and Malawi
Cycling West | August 06, 2024

SDSC faculty and team leader Daniel Frey provides overview of new report called Access to Affordable Bicycles in Africa.


Philippe Rigollet

Philippe Rigollet named Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
IDSS News | August 05, 2024

Rigollet works at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and optimization, focusing on the design and analysis of statistical methods.


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New method enables fast, accurate estimates of cardiovascular state to inform blood pressure management
MIT News | July 30, 2024

A mathematical method developed by researchers including IDSS faculty Emery Brown, and validated with experimental data, provides a fast, reliabl...


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Yury Polyanskiy named the Leverett Howell Cutten ’07 And William King Cutten ’39 Professor
MIT IDSS | July 30, 2024

Polyanskiy's research interests span information theory, statistical machine learning, error-correcting codes and wireless communication.


several dice showing different numbers

Study: When allocating scarce resources with AI, randomization can improve fairness
MIT News | July 24, 2024

Introducing structured randomization into decisions based on machine-learning model predictions can address inherent uncertainties while maintain...



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